[wplug] cp Maildir to new machine

[Scott F. Kiesling]

Hi-

I just got a new laptop (IBM T42, very nice) and have
installed Gentoo. I've got mutt, etc up and running, but
would like to get my mail off my old machine, which will not
connect to the net (hence new laptop). I can copy to a USB
drive and then copy from that to my new machine.

I am having trouble getting past the suffixes at the end of
Maildir files (e.g., "<filename>:2,S"). cp will not copy
these, tar will not tar them, and I can't find a script to
do it for me, except at the Google cache below, which
doesn't seem to work. Perhaps someone help, either with
clever suggestions or the way I would go about making a
script that deals with these suffixes.

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:RRDWAK2puHMJ:smtp.linux-sxs.org/pipermail/linux-users/2003-December/024898.html+backup+maildir+files+cp&hl=en

Thanks in advance-
Scott

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Scott F. Kiesling

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